admission
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "admission", 9-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "admission" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "admission" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
admission is aEnglishnoun. It means: The act or practice of admitting. Pronounced /ədˈmɪʃən/. It ranks #5,569 in English word frequency. Often confused with admissions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | admission |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ədˈmɪʃən/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for admission is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ədˈmɪʃən/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,569 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for admission, with forms such as "addmission", "adimssion", and "admision". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "admissions", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin admissio, admissionis; compare French admission. See admit. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is admission, spelled A-D-M-I-S-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The act or practice of admitting.
- 2Permission to enter, or the entrance itself; admittance; entrance; access
- 3The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgement; concession.
- 4Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
- 5A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence
- 6Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
- 7The cost or fee associated with attendance or entry.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin admissio, admissionis; compare French admission. See admit.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: addmission,adimssion,admision,admisison,admissino,admissionn,admissoin,admistion,admmission,admsision,amdission,damission
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for admission
Misspelling Variants of "admission"
Frequency rank: #5,569 in English
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